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TIRED MOTHERS.
A little elbow leans r.pon yonr knee
Your tired knee tliat lias ho much to bear -
A child’s dear eyes are looking lovingly ’
From underneath a thatch of tangled hair.
Perhaps you do not. heed the velvet touch
Of warm, moist lingers holding you so tight •
You do not prize this blessing overmuch ; ’
You almost are too tired to pray to-night.
But it is blessedness ! A year ago
I did not see it as I do to-day—
We are all so dull and thankless-, and too slow
To catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now it seems surpassing strange to ino
That, while I wore the badge of motherhood,
I did not kiss more oft and teqderly
The little child that brought me only good.
And if, some night, when you sit down to rest,
You miss this elbow from your tired knee—
This restless, curly head from off your breast,
This lisping tongue that chatters constantly •
If from yonr own the dimpled hands had slipped,
And ne’er would nestle in your palm again •
If the white feet into their grave had tripped,
I could not blame you for j-our neai i-acne Then.
* clinging to their gown ;
Or that the foot-prints, when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough to make them frown.
If I could find a little muddy boot
Or cap or jacket on my chamber floor;
If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot.
And hear it patter in my home once more ;
If I could mend a broken cart to-day,
To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky—
There is no Woman In God’s world could say
She was more blissfully content than L
But, ah ! the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by a shining head;
My singing bird ling from its nest has flown ;
The little boy I used to kiss is dead !
WRONGFULLY ACCUSED.
It. Ims been ninny long days since then,
yet I remember it all, just as t! ougli it
had occurred but yesterday.
I was a carpenter, the foreman of a
large establishment, and as such pos
sessed the entire confidence of my em
ployer, who, by tho way, had been a
schoolmate of mino.
One day ho called me into his office
lo look at some coins he had just pur
chased.
“ Here,” said he placing in my hand
a heavy gold piece, “ is one worth more
than all the rest put together. It is a
great cur.osity. I paid two hundred
dollars for it, and considered it cheap
at lhat. I could easily double my
money in selliDg it; ancFso you see,
Harvey, it is really a good investment.”
“No doubt it is,” said J, “ though it
seems a large sum to have lie idle.”
I breathed an involuntary sigh as I
laid the coin down on the desk, for two
hundred dollars would have seemed a
fortune to nio just then.
Tho severe illness of my wife and one
of my children, and tho death of an
other, made serious inroads on my
urse, and it had required the exercise
of the utmost economy to koep myself
free from debt; nay, I had been obliged
to withdraw from the bank the small
sum which, besides my salary, was all
1 possessed o£ worldly treasures.
Thinking of this, T lniil the coin down
with a sigh, and turned away to attend
to iny duties. •
Tho next morning I was again sum
moned into tne oilice, but this timo" I
met with no such friendly greeting as
usual.
“ Harvey,” said my 'employer, ab
ruptly, “that coin we were looking at
has disappeared. I have made a
thorough search, but it can Dot be
found. It has been carried away by
some ouq, You alone saw or know of
it, and—”
He paused and looked significantly
into my face. I finished the sentence
for him, the hot blood dying my cheeks
and brow as I spoke.
“ You mean, that I took it—ll”
“What else can I think? The coin
was here, you alone saw it. I cannot
recall having seen it since it was in
your hands. You are in need of money;
you have told me that yourself. It was
a great temptation, and I forgive you
because of our old friendship, but I
cannot retain you in my employ. Hero
is the salary duo you.”
“ Very well,” said I, with forced
calmness. “So be it. Since you have
so poor an opinion of me after years of
faithful service, I shall not stop to de
fend myself.”
Then I took the money ho had laid
upon the desk, and went from his pres*
eace a well-nigh broken-hearted man.
lint for the tender love for my wife, I
doubt not but that, I would have bnried
mv sorrows in the grave of a suicide.
Supported by hat love, however, .and
the consciousness of my own innocence,
1 took fresh courage, and set resolutely
to work to find anew employer.
Powerful is the breath of slander;
turn which way I might. I ever found
that the story of my dismissal for theft
had preceded me, and application for
employment uniformly met with re
fusal.
thrac went on ; pieee by piece of fur
niture, and every spare article of cloth
ing, found ts way to the pawnbroker’s,
until at length even this poor resource*
tailed us, and my children cried in vain
for food.
et l did not sit down in idle despair;
dd not afford to do so ; the life or
<tnath of all T loved on earth depended
- ; my exertion, and so, turning away
a heavy heart, I once more set out
on bje weary search for work.
final aft r refusal met
'uy entreaties for employment, and 1
turniug homeward wiHi a listless
, . '-sing an immense church,
1 , 8 ! ' Dieted by a group of men at its
* t" ; u by some strange impulse, I
1 rr’r 1 Urid with them.
Was landing near by,
‘ steeple, which
fiftv feet * -i u e two hundred and
feet above them, while a gentle
wim .evidently an architect Yasad
dressing him in earnest lanmi? and
g, I> ' ,i “ tin " &-S "to
I tJn l ” ! Sn ? mito? the spire.
~ ; ' y° n ' he exclaimed, as I drew
“■VV'teWottr out of * iob
?P Ce.“ Do it W youS 6 i7v 8 S ° *‘ igtl
it done.” urselt, if you want
1 would if X W n Ve ” r,
a'™; &W *0 i™Sl
The o’ : ™ '“r J°'>ao itT **
was about to mo™ „ and 1 gentleman
stepped forward. ' ' VHy a fi0 > I
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME 11.
„ " Wliat it you want done?” I asked.
I am a carpenter; perhaps I cam do
He turned eagerly towarl me.
make it worth your while,
lake < own lhat cross, and I will pay
you a hundred dollars. You will have
to ascend those •rnamental blocks, and
1 tell you candidly they are not to be
t de / They must bo weak and
for they have been up there for
years.
I looked up at the spire; it was
square at the base and tapered to a
sharp point, while along each angle
were naded small gilded blooks of wood
It s a dangerous place to work,” i
said, and there will be even more
S-f/[/VOO A ulAmg- n £fig"c4i>sß,
and then—”
“ If any accident happens to you, my
brave fellow, the money shall be paid
to your family. I promise you that.
Give me your address.”
“Here it is,” I said, “and as you
value your soul keep yonr word with
me. My wife and children are starving,
or I would not attempt this work. If I
die, they can live on the hundred dol
lars for a while, until my sick wife re
covers her strength.”
“I’ll make it a hundred and fifty, ”
exclaimed the architect, “and may God
protect you. If I had the skill neces
sary to ascend that steeple, I would ask
no man to risk his life there. But come,
and keep a steady hand and eye.”
I followed him into tho church, then
up into the spire, until we paused be
fore a narrow window. This was the
point from which I must start on the
perilous feat which I had undertaken.
Casting a single glance at the people
in the street below—mere specks in the
distance—l reached out from tho win
dow, and, grasping one of the ornamen
tal blocks, swung myself out from the
spire.
For an instant my courage faltered,
but the remembrance of my starving
family came to my aid, and,’ with a si
lent prayer for protection and success,
I placed my hand on the next block
above my head, and clambered up.
From block to block I went, steadily
and cautiously, trying each one ere I
trusted my weight upon it.
Two-thirds of the space had been
passed, when suddenly the block that
supported me moved—gave way. O,
heavens ! never, though I shoufd live
to see a hundred years, shall I cease to
shudder at the recollection of that ter
rible moment.
Yet even in the midst of my agony, as
I felt myself slipping backward, I did
not for one second lose my presence of
mind.
It seemed to mo that never before
had my koiirph heen so naturally acute
as then, when a horrible death seemed
inevitable.
Down, down I slipped, grasping at
each block as I passed it by, until at
length my fearful course was arrested ;
and then, while my head reeled with
the sudden reaction, a great shout came
from the people below.
“Come down! oome down!” called
the architect from the window; “half
the sum shall be yours for the risk
von havo run. Don’t try it again. Conie
down!”
But no; more than ever now I was
determined to succeed. I was not one
to give up after having undertaken a
difficult task.
Coolly but cautiously I commenced
the ascent once more, first seeking in
vain to reach across to the next row of
blocks, for I did not dare to trust my
self again on that which had proved so
treacherous. This I was compelled to
do, however, until the space between
the angles became sufficiently small to
allow me to swing across. Accomplishing
my purpose at length, I went up more
rapidly, carefully testing each block as
I proceeded.
Ere long I reached the cross, and
there I paused to rest, looking down
from the dizzy height with a coolness
that even then astonished me.
A few strokes wi.h a light hatchet
that the architect had hung at my back,
and piece by piece the rotten cross fell
to the ground.
My work was done, and, as the last
fragment disappeared, I found a sad
pleasure in the thought that, should I
never reach the gi ound alive, my dear
ones would have amply means to sup
ply their wauts until my wife could find
employment. %
Steadily and cautiously I lowered my
self from block to block, and at length
reached the spire window amidst the
cheers of those assembled iu the street.
Inside the steeple the architect placed
a roll of bank notes in my hand.
“You have well earned the money,”
he said. “It does me good to see a
man with so much nerve—but—bless
me ! what is the matter with your hair?
It was black bofere you made the as
cent, now it is gray.”
And so it was! "That moment of in
tense agony, while slipping downward,
bad blanched by hair, until it appeared
like that of an old man. The work of
years had been done in an instant.
Entering the bare, cheerless room
which was now all I called my home, I
found a visitor awaiting me—my late
employer.
“Harvey,” said he, extending his
hand, “ I have done a great wrong. It
cost me a terrible pang to believe in
your guilt, but circumstances were so
strongly against you that I was forced
to believe it. I have found the coin,
Harvey; It slipped under the secret
drawer in my desk. Can you forgive
me, dear old friend ?”
My heait was too full to speak, 1
silently pressed his hand.
“ I will undo the wrong I have done.
All the world shall know how I accused
you unjustly, not through my words
only, but through ny actions too. You
must be my partner, Harvey. H you
refuse, I shall feel that you have not
forgiveu me.”
x did not refuse. Instead, I thank
fuilyjaccepted the offer which my friend
so generously made, knowing that no
surer method could have been devised
to silence forever the tongue of slan
der and free my name from the unmer
ited reproach which of late had rested
upon. it.
Prosperity has attended my steps
ever since that eventful day, but neitli
prosperity nor wealth can efface inem
■ ry from my heart, nor restore my with
ered looks to their own raven hues
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1874.
SOUTHERN HISTORY.
Extracts front Grit. Joseph K. .John
ston's Hook on the hate War.
General Johnston fought through the
whole war in the east and in the°west.
He began it with the occupation of Har
per’s Ferry and the victory of Bull Bun
He maneuvered the shattered confeder
ate armies of the west during the latter
months of that great campaign on the
Mississippi which made Gen. Grant
commander of the armies of the union
and broke the backbone of the confed
erate system. He stayed for long weeks
with an inferior force the march of
Sherman to the sea, and when at last
he was forcedAiUecQflPWSfr.fjjfo l - lhe
Garolmas, the people of the
ate states all felt that the verdict of
fate had been pronounced against them.
Gen. Johnston’s account of Bull Run
explains the failure of the confederates
to follow up tho day by i n advance up
on Washington. “The victory,” says
General Johnston, “was as complete as
one gained by infantry and artillery on
ly can be,” but he declares it to be his
opinion that “if the tactics of the fed
erals had been equal to their strategy
wo should have been beaten;” He"
thinks that “ General McDowell great
ly underestimated the strength of his
enemy,” and that this was the cause of
the fatal inferiority above alluded to.
It is General Johnston’s opinion that the
disasters of the north at the outset of
the war were due to the fact that it un
dertook an offensive warfare ; and that
the south would have been just as bad
ly beaten, therefore, had the offensive
been originally taken on that side.
“Either country,’’ he says, “could
have raised armies stronger both in
numbers and in spirit for defensive than
for offensive war.
‘ At the ontset,” says General John
ston, “ the southern troops were superi
or to their adversaries, from greater
zeal and more familiarity with the me
of firearms. The thorough system of
instruction introduced into the United
States army gradually established
equality in the use of firearms, and our
greater zeal finally encountered better
discipline.
Upon the operations which preceded
the fall of Vicksburg and the great ad
vance of Sherman through Georgia,
Gen. Johnston’s book throws floods of
new light. We shall content ourselves
with a few striking extracts, which will
give, we think, a fair notion of the
spirit and stylo of his remarkable pub
lication. He says :
On the 21st I received the following
letter from the president, dated 23d.
Like that of the secretary of war, it
was ostensibly intended for my instruct
tion :
“ General : — This is addressed un
der the supposition that you have ar
rived at Dalton, and have assumed com
mand at that place. The, intelligence
recently received respecting tile condi
tion of that army is encouraging, and
induces me to hope that you will soon
be able to commence active operations
against the enemy.
“The reports concerning Missionary
Ridge show that our loss in killed and
wounded wafi not great, and that the
reverse sustained is not attributable to
any general demoralization or reluc
tance to encounter the opposing army.
The brilliant stand made by the rear
guard at Ringgold sustains this belief.
“In a letter written to me soon after
the battle, General Bragg expressed
his unshaken confidence in tbe cour
age and morale of the troops. He
says ; ‘We can reedeem the past. Let
us concentrate all our available men,
unite them with this little army, still
full of zeal, and burning to redeem its
lost character and prestige—hurl the
whole upon the enemy, and crush him
in his power and glory. I believe it
practicable, and that 1 may be alio ved
to participate in the struggle which may
restore to us the character, the prestige
and the country we have just lost.
This will give us confidence and restore
hope to the country and the army,
while it will do what is more import
ant, give us subsistance, without which
Ido not see how we are to remain
united.’
“The official reports made to my
aid-de-camp, Colonel Ives, who has just
returned from DaltoD, presented a not
unfavorable view of the material of the
command.
“The chief of ordnance reported
that, notwithstanding the abandonment
of a considerable number of guns dur
ing the battle, there was still on hand,
owing to previous large captures by our
troops, as many batteries as were pro
portionate to the strength of the army,
well supplied with horses and equip
ment, that a large reserve of small-arms
was in store at readily accessible points,
and that the supply of ammunition was
abundant.
“ Comparatively few wagons and am
bulances had been lost, and sufficient
remained for transportation purposes,
if an equal distribution were made
throughout the different corps. The
teams appeared to be generally in fair
condition. The troops were tolerably
provided with clothing, and a heavy in
voice of shoes and blankets daily ex
pected.
“The returns from the commissary
department showed that there were
thirty days’ provisions on hand.
“ Stragglers and convalescents were
rapidly coming in, and the morning re
ports exhibited an effective total that,
added to the two brigades last sent
from Mississippi and the cavalry sent
back by Longstreet, would furnish a
force exceeding in number that actually
engaged in anv battle on the confeder
ate side during the present war. Gen
eral Hardee telegraphed to me on the
11th instant : ‘ The army is m good
spirits ; the artillery reorganized and
equipped, and we are now ready to
fig “ The effective condition of your new
command, as thus reported to me, is a
matter of much congratulation, and i
assure you that nothing shall be want
ing on the part of the government to
aid you in your efforts to regain pos
session of tlie territory from which we
have been driven. You will not need
tTbave it suggested that the imperative
demand for prompt and vigorous action
arTes not only from the importance of
restorin'* the prestige of the army,
averting the injurious and du.pir.tmg
i results 'that must attend a season of m.
Iji God ITrtdt.
activity, but from the necessitv oi reoc
cupying the country, upon the supplies
of which the proper subsistence tf onr
armies materially depends.
“ Of the immediate measures to be
adopted in attaining this end, tty full
importance of which I am sure jot ap
preciate, you must be the best judge,
after due inquiry and consideration "on
the spot slial. have matured anopinioD.
It is my desire that you should commu
nicate fully and freely with me concern
ing yonr proposed plan of action, that
all the assistance and co-operation may
be most advantageously afforded that it
is in the power of the governmer*-
render nc , ling that your jj ea]fll w
preserved, and that me aninoun and re
sponsible aut'ies you have undertaken
may be successfully aocomplished, I re
main very respectfully and truly yours,
“Jefferson Davis.”
I was unable then, as now, to imag
ine any military object for which this
letter could have been written, especi
ally by one whose time was supposed to
be devoted to the most important con
cerns of government. The president
could not have thought that I was to ba
taught the moral and material condition
of the army around me by him, from
the observations of his aide-de-camp,
who had never seen military service,
instead of learning them by my own.
Nor could he have believed that the ar
my which he so described was compe
tent to recover “the territory from which
it had been driven.” He had visited it
some two months before, and seen that
it con id make no forward movement for
the purpose then, when the opposing
federal army Lad not been increase.!
by the corps of 20,000 veterans led
from Mississippi by Sherman ; nor ours
weakened by the withdrawal from it of
Longstreet’s corps, and its losses at
Missionary Ridge. Those losses must
have been severe, for such troops are
not easily driven from strong and in
trenched positions, still less easily rout
ed. As 1 had much better means of
information on the subjects of this pa
per thau its author, it could not have
been written for my instruction.
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOUTH.
Much has been and much
more said of the cause of the overthrow
of the confederate states in their great
contest for independence. One class,
and much the largest—for it iicludes
tho people who were victorious in tho
war, and those Europeans who watched
the struggle with interest, as well as
many of the southern people—ascribes
it to the superior population and great
er resources of the northern states. An
other, a class of scutliern people, attri
butes our defeat to a want of perseve
rvance, unanimity, and even of" loyalty
on °™ r ow n part, and the consequent
abandonment of the government of the
confederacy in its efforts by the people
themselves. In my view both are far
wrong.
The CfiusiQ of the oulvjugtitiiun Of fhe
southern states was neither want of
wealth and population lor of devotion
to their own cause on the part of the
people of those states. That people
was not guilty of the high crime of un
dertaking a war without the means of
waging it successfully, They ;had am
ple means, which, unfortunately, were
not applied to the object of equipping
great armies and bringing them into the
field.
A full treasury was necessary to de
fray the expenses of a great war. The
south had the means of making one, in
its cotton alone. But its government
rejected those means, and limited its
financial efforts to printing bank-notes,
with which the country was soon
flooded. The necessity of actual money
in the treasury, and the mode of rais
ing it, were generally understood in the
country. It was that the government
should take the cotton from the owners
•and send it to Europe as fast as -possi
ble, to be sold there. This was easily
practicable, for the owners were ready
to accept any terms the government
might fix, and sending to Europe wns
easy in all the first year of the confed
eracy’s existence. Its government wert
into operation early in February, The
blockade of the southern ports was pro
claimed in May, but not at all effective
until the end of the following winter,
so that there was a period of about
twelve months for the operation of
converting 4,000,000 or 5,000,009 bales
of cotton iuto money. The sum raised
iu that way would have enabled the war
depaitment to procure at once arm*
enough for five hundred thousand men,
and after that expenditure the confed
erate treasury would have been much
richer than that of the United States.
By applying the first money received in
this way to the purchase of arms and
military accoutrements or using for the
purpose the credit which such an
amount of property would have given,
the war department would have been
able to equip troops as fast as they
could be assembled and organized.
And, as the southern people were full
of enthusiasm, five hundred thousand
men could have been ready and in the
field, had such a course been pursued,
at the time when tke first battle was
actually fought—the 21st of July, 1861
Such a force placed on the northern
borders -of the confederacy, before the
United States had brought a fourth of
the number into the field, would prob
ably have prevented the very idea of
“coercion.” Such a disposition of such
an army, and the possession of financial
means of carrying on war for years,
would have secured the success of the
confederacy.
The timely adoption of such a finan
cial system would have secured to ns
the means of success, even without an
extraordinary exportation of arms and
the immediate organization of large ar
mies. It would have given the confed
eracy a treasure richer than that of the
United States. We should thus have
had, to the end of the war, the means
of paying our soldiers, and that would
have enabled of them as belonged
to the laboring cl as3 to remain iu the
ranks. This class, in the confederacy,
as in all other countries, formed the
body of the army. In all the earlier
part of the war, "when the confederate
money was not much below that of the
United States in value, our troops were
paid with some regularity, and soloiers
of the laboring class who had families
fed and clothed them with their pay, as
they had formerly done with the wages
of their labor. ‘.And so long as that
state of things continued the strength
of the confederate armies was little im
pairod ; and those annus were main
tained on such a footing as to justify
the hope, which was general in the
south until the fall of 1864, that we
were to win in the contest. But after
the confederate currency had become
almost worthless when a soldier’s
month’s pay would scarcely buy one
meal for his family—and that was the
case in all the last period of ten or
twelve months—those soldiers of the
laboring class who had families were
compelled to choose between their mil -
tea wives
j Ttoj obeyed the strong
est of those obligations, left the army
and returned to their homes to support
their families.
The seceding states, in general, made
no preparation for war by procuring
arms—none of consequence, that is to
say. I believe that Georgia procured
80,000 old-fashioned muskets, and Vir
ginia had 40,000, made in a state armory
more than forty years before. They had,
of course, flint locks. Each of the other
southern states on seceding claimed,
and, when practicable, took possession
of the military property of the United
States within its limits. They obtained
in that way the arms with which they
began the war.
To recapitulate : The confederate
states began the war with 120,000 arms
of obsolete models, and 700 of the re
cently adopted weapons, “rifled mus
kets,” and the United States with about
450,000 of the old and all of the mod
ern arms that had been made since the
adoption of tlic new model, about the
middle of Gen. Fierce’s administration,
when Mr. Davis was at the head of the
war department, except, however, the
700 hold by the confederacy. The equip
ped field batteries and fixed ammuni
tion of all kinds were in the north, as
well as the establishments for the man
ufacture of arms and the preparation of
ammunition, except that at Harper’s
Ferry, which, being on the border, was
abandoned by the United States, after
an attempt to destroy it, which left lit
tle besides machinery.
*The chief of ordnance, Col. Craig, m his
report on the subject states that but 80,000 of
the arms ordered by Mr. Floyd to be sent to
the south were actually removed.
BURIED TREASURE UNEARTHED.
A Conledernlc Soldier Makes a Death
bed Will-!|7r,000 in Gold lU
tored to Circulation.
From the Memphis Register.
When the war between the states
broke out, there lived in Memphis a
certain young mechanic who voluntered
his services as a soldier in'the confeder
ate cause. Just before receiving march
ing' orders he fell heir to $7,500. which
he received in English gold, and buried
$7,000 of the same beneath the roots of
a tree on a certain lot in the city. The
st.-d rot beiong-oi ’. a friend of tlie
young man whose family had kindly
nursed him during a protracted illness,
and for whom he felt a deep sense of
gratitude, It chanced that said soldier
became tired of his unrequited life,
and-despairng of the cause which he
deemed “lost,” before many of his
fellows came to the same conclusion, he
left his comrades without the usual
preliminary of an honorable discharge,
and passed beyond the boundary of the
confederate states into Mexico, In
due course of time he sailed for Eng
land and there shipped as a sailor on a
merchant vessel. After various adven
tures around the wourld he was at
length taken very ill recently, while
sailing in the Mediterranean, and, be
fore meeting with his approaching
death, summoned to the side of his
•hammock the master of the vessel, re
vealed to him the above stated facts,
and desired him to write a will in which
he bequeathed to the friend in Mem
phis, who had nursed him in sickness,
his buried treasure. This was accord
ingly done and the will signed and
witnessed.
The master of the vessel faithfully
carried out the dying request of the
deceased soldier and sailor and commu
nicated the facts with the will to the
Memphis legatee, who received the
same. But he had some time before
sold and delivered another party the
lot on which the valuable sovereigns
were deposited. How to get at it now
without incurring opposition and per
haps litigation, was the question which
arose in his mind. After taking the
advice of counsel, he concluded to de
velop the wdiole matter to the purchaser
and owner of the place and ask for the
right to make search. This was done,
and the proprietor generously for
warding his wishes and giving him
every facility to possess himself of the
treasure. On digging at the foot of
the tree described in the will, the gold,
amounting to £7,000, was happily found
the new owner made glad by the
glittering heap. Thus did the “ bread
cast on the waters return after many
days.” And thus is truth again proven
to" be “ Stranger than fiction.” This
remarkable statement is vouched for by
a respectable lawyer of this city. It
furnishes abundant foundation for an
interesting romance, which we hope
some competent person will work up.
Veils.
Alas for veils ! From the tiny infant
in the nurse’s arms to the ancient widow
in her weeds, the whole sex is vailed.
Veils answer many purposes. They
conceal defects, they heighten beauty,
they cover grief, and so we see a whole
race of women of every age, style and
condition laying foundations for disea
ses of the eye through an almost need
less fashion! These blinders are of eve
ry conceivable style, from white dot on
the child to the English crape on its
grandmother. The best oculists give
testimony against this wholesale wear
ing of veils, and we thiok they shoul 1
make protest against it, even at the ri. k
of injury to their calling. At least let
the mothers of to-day look to it that
they will be held responsible, in an
other generation, for suffe ing their lit
tle ones to go veiled, as the matrons of
a past generation were for allowing
tig ;>t lacing and all the evils which that
distressing practice en ailed.
—The smallest salary paid to a post
master in this country is two dollars,
and a large number receive sums rang
ing from that emouqt to twelve dollars.
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER 11.
BALD MOUNTAIN.
“ Sawbuiei ” Elucidates the Ciissfdne*s
of Newspaper Humanity.
NeaiT the Volcanic Regions, March
19—“ H—ll afloat in the mountains !” —
“Old Baldy” Preparing to Ernct !
Volcano !—Smoke !—Fire! —The Earth
Quaking!—Things Trotting!” I heard
all this, and I could not stand it. I had
never seen a volcano, s I mounted my
horse and put out for “ Old Bald.” The
news got worse the farther I went. As
I approached the mountain I met the
natives APet^’—:
back, and sung, “Turn, sinner, turn,”
and I think some of them prayed for
me. It beat old Mrs. Ward’s saloon at
Greenville. To get out of the fuss I
pushed on. I struck a leading spur of
old Bald, and rode up, up as l'ar as I
could ride. Then I dismounted, hitched
my horse and walked on. Where the
spur joined the main mountain, my way
was obstruced by perpendicular rocks.
I could see smoke from the top, but I
could not hear the rumbling. I climbed
up and around the mountain to avoid
the rocks. After proceeding for some
time, I began to hear the rumhlirg. It
appeared to be below me and farther
around the mountain. I got on a high
point, from which there was a com
manding -view below. The rumbling
from this point was terrible and unac
countable. Just here I saw a sight that
astonished me more than if the earth
yawned at my feet. I saw a wagon, with
four mules, driven furiously around the
side of the mountain. It had on it an
old-fashioned wagon-bed, and from the
noise, there was a few loose rocks in
it. How the thing held together, bounc
ing about over the rocks, is unaccounta
ble. It went a few hundred yards, and
turned round. It stopped about ten
minutes as if to rest the mules, then,
here it came again. The road (if it
could be called a road) was about four
hundred yards long. It would turn and
rest the mules at each end. I saw it
make several trips. Then I took a
drink from my flask, and scrambled
down to this Devil’s turnpike. I placed
myself by the side of the road, to wait
for the ivacron. In a few minutes here
it came. The driver did not see me
until he ivas within fifty steps of me.
Ho appeared astonished, stood up in
his stirrflps (he was riding one of the
mules), and tried to bluff me by veiling
out r
“Get out of the way, you d—d
fool !”
As soon as he spoke I knew him. It
was George Sikes. He used to live
over in Buncombe when Madison was
part of Buncombe. I picked up a
couple of rocks and placed myself in
the middle of the road. Then he stop
ped and I went for him. Said I, ‘ ‘George,
ie 37m don’t want to be lifted from that
mule with one of these doruiukn, talk
fast. ”
“ Talk what ?” said he.
Volcano,” said I.
“ Now look Imre, Sawbones ” (he al
ways called me Sawbones), “you know
that lam a poor man. lam paid by
the editors to do this.”
“ But how about the smoke and fire?”
He said one of his boys was on top
and with sticks and wet leaves he kept
up a smoke. At night they built a fire.
“ How about the the blow out ?”
Here George laughed outright. He
said the natives were very skittish when
they heard the rumbling, but when “the
blow up” came, they incontinently tod
dled ! He had buried a keg of powder
about eight feet deep, inserted a tin
tube in the keg, tramped in the dirt,
lit a slow'match and then she blew out!
“They say they hear this rumbling
to Old Fort?”
“O, yes ! They hear it there ! They
will hear it in New York sood, the news
is spreading mighty fast! Sawbones,
for God sake give me all the tobacco
you have about you—go home to your
family and keep your mouth shut.”
I did oome home to my family. The
old quilt saw me coming and ran to
meet me. The first word was “volca
no !” I told her the volcano was all
right, but that the cussedness of hu
man nature was breaking my heart, and
that if she didn’t get in the house and
make me a strong cap of coffee, there
would be a volcano right there. She
went—not being a strong-minded cru
sader, she consequently does what I ask
her to do.
i If you are in the “volcano” business
you can suppress this. Ido not want
to injure any man’s business; and this
volcano-earthquake news is mighty ex
citing reading.
Small Means.
The power of money is on the whole
over estimated. The greatest things
which have been for the world have not
been accomplished by rich men, or by
subscription lists, but by men generally
of small pecuniary meacis. The greater
thinkers, discoverers, inventors and art
ists, have been men of moderate wealth,
many of them little raised above the
conditi-n of manual laborers, in point
of worldly circumstances. And it will
always be so. Riches are oft.ener an
impediment than a stimulus to action ;
and in many cases they are quite as
much a misfortune as a blessing. The
youth who inherits wealth is apt to
have life made too easy for him, and he
soon grows sated with it, because he
has nothing left to desire. Having no
special object to struggle for, be finds
time heavy on his hands ; morally and
mentally asleep ; and his position in so
ciety is often no higher than that of a
polypus over which the tide floats.
—William (ted, the inventor of stere
otyping, was a Scotchman. He was a
jeweler in Edinburg. So long as he ad
! hered to his original vocation he was
permitted to prosper. When he ven
tured to exercise his ingenuity by facil
itating the printer’s art, he was doomed.
On his making known his discovery of
block printing, the trade deemed their
c aft in danger, and formed a eorabina
i tion for his destruction Master print
ers, journeymen, and apprentices uni
! ted against him as a c >mmon enemy ;
they loaded him with invectives ; they
reproached him with ignorance and as
3umption. The arrows of calumny hit
j him on all sides. Who could long with-
I stand such an array of hostilities? Poor
I Ged, who ought to have made a fortune
by his discovery, sunk under the load
of persecution, and died of a broken
heart.
EASTMAN TIMES.
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Advertisements lussrted si the rate of (IJB per
wjuve for the first Insertion, and 76 cents for saoh
subsequent cue. Ten Lints or lass constitute n
square.
Professional cards, $16.86 ne r eunsjaj f<* El
months, SIO.OO, la advenes.
FACT AND FANCY.
—A Keokuk butcher gives away a
chromo with ever v ten pounds of meat.
—“ He handled a gun carelessly, and
put his angel plumage on,” is an obitu
ary which appears in a western paper.
—How happily things turn out. It is
now declared that Gladstone has long
been very anxious to withdraw from
public lifo.
—There is always some incentive to
the Ajnerican youth to study and work.
He mav not become president of the
-suited yfates, but he may be the oldest
Mason.
—There is a general opinion that the
ice crop for 1874 will prove a complete
failure, and much suffering has been
apprehended among the wealthy next
summer.
—The St. Louis Journal “trusts there
is no truth in the rumor that the tem
perance crusaders intend to carry on
the Campaign until every cotton gin in
the south is closed. ”
—A malicious politician says the
Grangers in Illinois turn out to dig the
graves ot deceased brothers, thus pre
venting extortion on the part of that
“ middleman,” the sexton.
—A California paper says of Gov.
Stafford, of Arizona, that “he can go
it as long without a plug hat and a
biled shirt as any man who ever looked
a grizzly square in the face.”
—M. Ollivier says “that no govern
ment can be founded in France without
a plebiscite, and if we have one the em
pire will receivo far more votes than all
the other parties put together.”
—Ohio men don’t ask each other now
to go in and have something to drink,
but maintain personal friendship by
passing around handfuls of magnificent
ly-developed peanuts and gum-drops.
—A fat French lady says: “I am so fat
that I pray for a disappointment to
make me thin. No sooner does the dis
appointment come than the mere expec
tation of growing thinner gives me such
joy that I become fatter than ever.”
—Horace Greeley’s estate will prove
much more valuable than has been sup
posed. Instead of being worth but
825,000 'or s.‘>o,ooo, as was thought a
short time after his death, it probably
represents a value of about $125,000
quite enough to render his daughters
comfortable.
—The latest precocious sayiDg is by
au infant on the Pacific coast. She had
torn one of her nails to the quick, and
going to liermother, while the pain filled
her eyes with tears, said, holding up
her wounded finger, “Mamma, I dess I
shall have to go up to heaven and dit
anozzer put on.”
—A workingman of Dundee, Scot- '
land, writing of co-operation in that
town, say tiiat aooufc a year ago a few
men clubbed together and bought a box
oi BOR'p and a client of tna, ami retailed
it among themselves. The results were
URtuiiioliiiig. Thoro nro now one hun
dred and eighty shareholders, and they
have a shop of their own.
—A good thing is told of the Bishop
of Montreal. It seems that the good
bishop has prohibited dancing, and two
officers, wishing to obtain permission
to dance the polka at a military ball,
danced it together to show the bishop
how it was done. After the exhibition
the bishop gave his permission in these
terms: “You can dance the polka as
long as you please—with each other.”
—When Charles Lamb was invited,
at a public dinner, to say grace, and
responded with the remark, “Is there
no minister present ? Then let us thank
God !” Le was a satirist, and knew it.
When a sheriff down in Vermont, in
opening the county court, cried, “ All
persons having causes or matters pend
ing therein, draw near, and they shall
be heard, and God save the people!” he
was a satirist, and didn’t know it.
—There is nothing funnier in cockney
vernacular than .Teamcs’ letter, when
he is in doubt which to prefer of his two
lady-loves, Mary Hann and Hangelina.
He writes : “There they stood together,
them two young women. I don’t know
which is the ’andsomest. I couldn't
help comparing them ; and I couldn’t
help comparing myself to’a certain han
nimle I've read of, that found it difficult
to make a choice between two bundles
of A.” *
Advice to Correspondents.
There are a few things that we would
like to impress upon the minds of those
whose fortune, or misfortune, necessi
tate their sending correspondence to a
newspaper. Here they are :
Write plainly. Not to do so is to
mtke an item almost valueless, and
sometimes worse than uselesp.
If you write a “ back” hand, learn to
do it with the left hand, that the com
positor may not have to stretch his neck
to the left to a dangerous extent to get
the run of a word.
Don’t underline every adjective in the
sentence, after the style of a lawyer’s
brief.
If you have ever studied punctuation
at all, punctuate ; but if you have not,
let is slide.
If you have occasion to make a capital
J, write it below and not on the line.
If John Smith or William McFaden
has purchased a piece of property of
Hezekiah Hobbletop for one thousand
dollars, say so, if you desire to see the
notice in print. There is no occasion
to say, “Our highly-respected and hon-
Oied citizen, John Smith, who for the
last ten years has been selling milk at
ten cents a quart, thereby realizing a
munificent profit, has purchased from
his neighbor, Mr. Hezekiah Hobbletop,
a most estimable citizen, and honorable
vender of garden tags and sich, that
beautifully located piece of property
known as" ‘Fools’ Folly Plot,’ and in
that most salubrious location intends
erecting a house thereon.” Self praise
is no recommendation, neither does it
pay the printer, but it does disgust
him.
Dot your i’s, cross you t’s, point'your
u’p, and make them distinct from the
rounded and.
Use ink. Lead pencil writing over
strains the eye of the compositor when
deciphering it, and also causes him to
indulge in “ cuss words.”
Be sure to spell names correctly. A
man wants his name given rightly or
not at all.